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Children

‘LGBT foster carers are very useful – we know what it’s like to be different but equal’

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Children

‘Where has the ‘care’ in the care system gone?’ A review of C4’s Kicked Out Kids

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Children

‘The social work office was stark and brutal’: BBC1’s The Casual Vacancy

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Workforce, Children

Do social workers feel able to blow the whistle?

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Children

We must listen and respond to young people in the system telling us what care means

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Children

‘It may never be possible to remove the scaffolding entirely’

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Children, Workforce

What happened next? Coventry’s social workers open up about life post-Daniel Pelka

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Children

Are social workers being dishonest about the realities of adoption?

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Children

Foster carers need to be seen as the ‘first educators’ of children in care

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Children

Insisting on foster care ignores the fear and pain felt by children

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Workforce, Children

Children’s directors hit back at damning report on state of residential child care

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Children, Workforce

Martin Narey defends social work education report against ‘misguided’ critics

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Children, Workforce

‘ITV1’s Exposure: Don’t take my child was both important and irresponsible’

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Children

Social workers standing up for profession in wake of Baby P, controversial book finds

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Children

Senior judge criticises ‘highly defensive’ social work culture ahead of ITV documentary

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Children

ADCS president accuses universities of turning out ‘crap social workers’

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